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"..."

Ragna blinked his eyes twice.

Staring at the group of bandits before him he crossed his arms and sighed. Behind them were caravans of horses that are probably filled with slaves, and supplies.

"... My first actual encounter is with bandits, hm?" Ragna spoke, with calm confidence.

It had been a few hours since he had woken up to this world, and to be honest, the feeling was really good, as if he was given absolute freedom to do as he wants without being oppressed by anybody.

Plus, he kept his avatar's powers, including the [Admin Codes] which still exist with wonders on his body. He preferred being this more than his previous self, too. Everything here was real, sight, touch, taste, anything...

Yes, even the food that he had just created using specific commands he could use simply by either speaking or willing it through his mind.

It felt surreal...

World editing, NPC/Monster/Entity creation, Player Disguises, and other things were tested in the mere span of around 29 hours. With all those, he knew that the 6000 and more spells of YGGDRASIL have improved variously with barely any restrictions. Any damages he's done to the environment will be removed and replaced by what they once were.

Honestly, he was aware that he was restless, yet that didn't stop him at all because he felt as if rest wasn't needed and he was always at full energy.

Aside from that...

*clang!* *clang!* *clang!*

"Our weapons! They're not working!"

"Try using arrows!"

"Our arrows aren't working either!"

He was standing upright, tapping his foot on the ground while every arrow, and weapon failed to go past an invisible barrier that protects him from all harm. Nets that were used to try capturing him merely passed through, and other weapons were rendered ineffective.

Seeing this, the bandits were all terrified at him. If none works, then...!

"Is this man... one of the Six Gods?! No, that can't be!!!" One bandit yelled in fear, stepping back to try preserving his life.

Suddenly, Ragna stepped forward, out of his deep thoughts as he raised his hand to create a Mid-Ranked Sword that simply increases damage and attack speed. Nothing more.

"[Class Equip: Swordmaster, Level 15 and Thief: Level 15]." Ragna calmly spoke before walking forwards, rushing to a soft jog, to immediately dashing towards the bandits.

In a swift, smooth lunging motion, a bandit's heart had been pierced by his sword. Gripping his sword tightly, he stabbed the same bandit several times before kicking him away.

"[Class Switch: Black Wizard, Level 10]."

Tossing his sword away while breaking it down into 0s and 1s that vanish afterwards (due to Item Destruction), he extended his arms to the sides, pointing at two bandits who were barely capable of reacting to his speed.

"[Quad: Flame Laser], [Quad: Ice Laser]." Ragna whispered, as scorching hot beams and freezing beams pierced through several bandits, either turning their bodies into charcoal-black ones or freezing through them until they are completely frozen.

He knew he no longer reacted to killing anyone much. Not like he was already that used to killing, as fighting back against his "colleagues" in his past life to straight up murdering some of them with difficulty at some point at AD2135.

After slaughtering the remaining bandits, not letting a single one escape except one, who was on the ground, staring at him with utter fear in his eyes.

"I... I can give you money-"

"Silence. I only want information." His tone made him sound with high authority, enticing the bandit who will obviously die soon.

"Uh, okay fine! I'll give you what you want!"

For a long while, he gathered information about the world.

Apparently, 6 years ago, the Six Gods appeared out of nowhere, saving an entire dukedom from the dragons supposedly out of kindness and benevolence.

It seemed like miracles were sent to this world in the best possible time to the humans here. After that, with their efforts, the dragons were banished from the human kingdoms and made them prosper. In fact, they were the ones who spearheaded the unity of all humans and were successful.

The Six Gods were: Sasha Drakkaiser or Fire, Fouchenn Grima of Water, Kikotenshin Nekonyan of Wind, Watts Monoclus of Earth, Alah Alaf of Light, and lastly Surshana of Darkness.

Several Daces exist in this world too, one which were humans, the second and third being Light Elves and their counterparts, the Dark Elves, the Dwarves who have incredible knowledge over their craft, and lastly the Dragons, more generalized as Demons once Ragna pressured the bandit, they were all powerful, with the Evil Dragon Emperor ruling through all of hus.

Now that he was done gaining information, he proceeded to give the bandit his last mercy: death. After that, he proceeded to curiously visit the carriages, gently hopping up to enter it.

When he entered one of them, he saw several black haired, tan skinned people, all with pointed ears noticing him once he entered.

"Out of all the people, I find Dark Elves stashed in this carriage. Hm, maybe there's other dark elves inside the other carriages." He said, scaring the other Dark Elves that were chained at the interior of the carriage.

They seemed to look at him like some sort of fearsome monster who suddenly appeared before them.

"A human...? Why would something like a weak human would... save us?" An dark elven woman asked, completely flabbergasted as her blue eyes stared at the administrator on his face. To be honest he was pretty young, and with that choice of clothing he would be seen as a high-ranking noble.

"You know, I expected that from people like you to say that. But at least say some thanks to me for freeing you." He replied, before proceeding to destroy the chains that bound the Dark Elves before doing the same to the other Dark Elves on the other few carriages.

After that, the Dark Elves were now outside and were staring at him in awe, curiosity, and cautiousness, maybe also paranoia. As they were captured and are thinking that they are still enslaved, most of them don't think of him as their saviour.

Yet.

"Right. Let me get this straight. I was just testing my powers, when I came across some bandits. No, it's probably the other way around since they thought I was... you know, some rich guy that they underestimated. But, I'm kind enough to give you two options." Ragna began to speak, observing the dark elves who were in tattered clothing.

"Would you follow me or not? I won't stop you because your decision is yours."

Ragna smirked as the Dark Elves, with mild reluctance, had declared that they would follow him.

Then, a thought came to him: 'What if I make a village from scratch? Then slowly build it to become a large kingdom, maybe an empire? That should be interesting enough.'

[ ~ Chapter • End ~ ]

Status Update:

Black Wizard - An advanced subtype of the [Black Mage] class, passively increases offensive magic and affinity to all elements while being unable to use healing spells.

• Flavor Text/Lore: "To become a Black Wizard is to dedicate oneself to practicing all sorts of offensive elemental magic, including magic that supports your allies. Up until then, it takes decades for an ordinary Black Wizard to master the arts of his/her path."

Question: Which elf type do you prefer? Dark Elves or normal Elves?